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Security Release - CakePHP 2.1.5 & 2.2.1

by markstory
on July 14, 2012

CakePHP 2.1.5 and 2.2.1 have just been released. If you are using CakePHP's `Xml` class, you should upgrade as soon as possible.

The security issue was recently reported by Paweł Wyleciał. When accepting user provided XML it is possible to read arbitrary files using external entities. This is particularily dangerous for applications accepting XML data as part of a webservice. A possible exploit example would be:

Once the XML has been processed $this->request->data['Post']['body'] will contain the contents of /etc/passwd. This issue was fixed and packaged releases for 2.1 and 2.2 have been created. This issue does not affect the 1.3 or 1.2 release series. If you are unable to upgrade, you should apply the patch as soon as possible. This issue has been assigned CVE-2012-4399 and OSVDB-84042.

Other fixes in 2.2.1

In addition to the security fix 2.2.1 contains fixes for the following issues:

Fixed missing urlencode on nested named parameters.

Fixed ANSI codes being output on windows terminals.

Fixed HtmlHelper::image() including the base directory twice when the fullBase option is used.

Console logging now respects the quiet flag for shells.

TranslateBehavior now saves records with only some translated fields correctly.

afterValidate() was made available on behaviors. This was an omission in 2.2.0.

View the complete changelog for 2.2.1 and 2.1.5. Download a packaged release.

CakeFest 2012 is around the corner and we already expect awesome talks and workshops during the best PHP conference out there. If you haven't booked your tickets yet, it's about time you do.

As always, thanks to the friendly CakePHP community for the patches, documentation changes and new tickets. Without you there would be no CakePHP!